"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
Literature
Staring at the Sun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 195 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Cathy Wood, priced at £9.95. A fine, as-new copy. More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. From The Little White Bird.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1912. 'BEST EDITION' OF PETER PAN. Quarto, pp.6; 127. Bound in publisher's gilt decorated green cloth featuring four birds at head of board, and children linking arms at lower end of board. Author/illustrator/title blocked in gilt to front board and spine, additional tooling to spine..... More
The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1914]. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown..... More
Conjuror.
London: Head of Zeus, 2016. [Fantasy Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 303 [11]. SIGNED by both authors in black marker to title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards with metallic blue titles. With the dust-jacket designed by Larry Rostant, priced at £12.00. 'Signed by the..... More
A Kind Of Loving
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. [Romantic Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 286; [ii], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, dust-jacket designed by Adrian Bailey with printed price of 16s. Internally clean and bright, minor toning to edges of textblock, small mark to lower board pastedown..... More
Blue of Noon.
London: Marion Boyars, 1979. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.155; [1]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket designed by Michael Werner. Some soiling to boards, corners and spine ends a little bumped. Dust-jacket shows well with just some creasing to the top edge and some..... More
A Breath Of French Air.
London: Michael Joseph, 1959. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.159; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Broom Lynne. Spotting and browning to edges; a little offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket toned to spine, with some small chips and bruising..... More
The Darling Buds of May.
London: Michael Joseph. Ltd., 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.158; [4], blank. Original pink cloth lettered in black and gilt, illustrated dust-jacket by Broome Lynn, priced at 12/6. Contents clean, edges of text block toned, mark from a removed label to pastedown, jacket a little..... More
The Darling Buds of May.
London: Michael Joseph, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Crown Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.158; [4], blank. Original pink cloth lettered in black and gilt, illustrated dust-jacket by Broome Lynn, priced at 12/6. A little offset browning to endpapers, light toning and spotting to edges. Some minor dustiness and handling but..... More
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[Scrapbook].
[Privately produced]. 1892- circa 1903. LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[16]; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or..... More
Materials for the Study of Variation Treated with Especial Regard to Discontinuity in the Origin of Species.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. [Genetics and Heredity] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 598 [2]. Illustrated throughout with tables and small diagrams. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed; dark green endpapers. Neatly re-cased with repairs to hinges. Ex libris stamp of Rud Martin..... More
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Centenary Edition.
London: Pavilion, 1999. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST FOREMAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.160. With colour illustrations by Foreman throughout. SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's green paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by..... More
Helene. Translated into English by Felice Bashford.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth boards printed in dark blue to spine; edges a little foxed. In its original light blue dust jacket printed in red and black, creased and rubbed to extremities; spine faded but black and red lettering still vivid. A sound copy..... More
The Lennon Play: In His Own Write.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Sixties Culture] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.35; [3], blank. Publisher's textured purple covers in a pictorial dust-wrapper, priced at 16s. A superb, fine copy. Book Collector No.287 (p32-62) 'The Sixties'. More
The Mutineer. A Romance of Pitcairn Island.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. [Nautical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 298; [14]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of Charles MacA. Willcox to front pastedown, tape burn to endpapers. Lightly browned throughout. Cloth rubbed to extremities, slightly..... More
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En Attendant Godot [Waiting For Godot].
Paris: Les Editions De Minuit, 1952. [Drama] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.163; [1], blank; [1], note; [3], blank. White card covers printed in black and blue, advertisements for 'Malloy' and 'Malone Meurt' to rear cover, with photo of the author. Title and rear leaves unopened (uncut edges)..... More
The Hostage.
London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1958. [Modern Drama] FIRST EDITION of the play in book form. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.92. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, photographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Top edge dusty, jacket with a few chips and tears, sunned to spine; very good... More
The Uneven Road.
London: John Murray, 1955. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 335; [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth, titles in dark brown to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 21s. net. Illustrated with two maps and six double sided photographic plates. Internally fine, light offsetting to endpapers and spotting..... More
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Oxford: Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1931. [Romantic Fiction] LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION of 1000 copies, this being number 303. Two volumes, large octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.282, pp.278. Illustrated with etched frontispiece to each volume, from a drawing by Jack..... More
The Balcony.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1934. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.248. Publisher's red cloth, titles in gilt to spine, dust-jacket designed by John Nash. Generally internally clean and bright apart from a small stain affecting four leaves towards the rear of the book. Edges toned, a little dusty to top..... More
Selected Articles on Censorship of the Theater and Moving Pictures. The Handbook Series III, Volume 6.
New York, NY: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1931. [Film and Theatre] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.385; [3]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of $2.40 to spine. Very light spotting and browning. Jacket browned with some small chips to edges. A remarkably well-preserved..... More
Beyond the Fringe.
London: Souvenir Press, 1963. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's dark blue cloth, orange titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 13s. 6d. With six double sided black and white photographic plates. Light spotting to edges. Wrapper slightly edge worn, some marking to rear panel..... More
Spook Stories.
London: Hutchinson, no date [1940]. [Strage Tales / Macabre] Part of Hutchinson's Booklover's Library (No.14). First edition in this format. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.288; [4], advertisements. Publisher's oatmeal cloth lettered in blue, green dust-wrapper priced at 2s. Two neat stamps (name and date) to flyleaf else a lovely clean..... More
Across The Stream.
London: John Murray, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. pp.314. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with titles in black to front board and spine. Binding is rubbed and bumped to corners and spine ends, with a slight lean, and a little spotting to front edge of text block. Internally clean and free..... More
Trent's Own Case.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 324 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Hawkins, priced at $2.00. The usual wood-grain pattern browning to preliminaries..... More